Common coding polymorphisms in the ABCA1 gene and risk of early-onset coronary heart disease in northern Germany

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 458-460

  Nebel, Almut ^a   Croucher, Peter J P ^b   El Mokhtari, Nour Eddine ^b   Flachsbart, Friederike ^a   Schreiber, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATP binding cassette transporter A1 gene (ABCA1 gene); Coronary heart disease; I883M; PopGen; Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER A1;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERMANY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; LIPID METABOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34447310875     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2006.09.022     Document Type: Letter

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